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What is another word for obstreperous?

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Loud, complaining and protestive in nature

Resistant to control or authority

Cranky, disagreeable, or stubborn, especially if prone to odd whims or fancies

Adjective

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Loud, complaining and protestive in nature

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“Some of them can be very demanding and ungrateful, even obstreperous and fractious.”

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Resistant to control or authority

obstinately disobedient

unfavorable^US

without law and order

as stubborn as a mule

with a will of one's own

determined to have one's own way

terrorising^UK

terrorizing^US

full of ups and downs

revelling^UK

uncivilised^UK

uncivilized^US

reveling^US

cavilling^UK

off straight and narrow

have chip on shoulder

caviling^US

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“He sticks to his mission, getting the obstreperous children into school and helping them become learners.”

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Cranky, disagreeable, or stubborn, especially if prone to odd whims or fancies

ill-humored^US

as cross as two sticks

like a bear with a sore head

cavilling^UK

caviling^US

having got out of bed on the wrong side

nasty-tempered

hot-blooded

hot under the collar

having got out of bed the wrong side

humourless^UK

humorless^US

sombre^UK

somber^US

apt to fly off the handle

got up on wrong side of bed

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What is another word for obstreperous?

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